I guess I'll have to WRESTLE with that thought for MANY years to come, Darcy..

I should have included it as Matthew asked for:
(Particularly "important" works?)

My bad :)

Bob

PS: Yes, that momentous occasion was actually mentioned on the page in Wikipedia I referenced--
Under "References in Popular Culture"..

I now include the rest for the sake of completeness, lest I be PINNED down again for lacking it:):


The melody has also been referenced in popular culture, often being used in soundtracks to horror films.

A version of "Dies Irae" was used in WWE/WWF's WrestleMania XIV during the video package to promote the buildup to The Undertaker and Kane's historic first match against one another.

The musical Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim contains several variations of the Dies Irae throughout its score, most notably in the recurrent "Ballad of Sweeney Todd",[5] and as part of the underscoring in the climactic "Epiphany".

"Lacrimosa" by singer/songwriter Regina Spektor centers around the eighteenth stanza of the poem. The song is written from the point of view of Icarus, the son of Daedalus from Greek mythology, as he is falling to the earth.

A version of Dies Irae named Requiem Nitachou K.626 is used for Wolfgang Krauser in the Fatal Fury series by SNK,now SNK Playmore.

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the last stanza (Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem) is chanted by monks hitting themselves with boards.

A japanese Anime called Death Note features Dies Irae's first two stanzas as the lyrics of the theme of the Death Note with orchestral music in the background.



On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:42 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:

Bob, you omitted what is perhaps the most culturally significant use of "Dies Irae" in living memory:

A version of "Dies Irae" was used in WWE/WWF's WrestleMania XIV during the video package to promote the buildup to The Undertaker and Kane's historic first match against one another.


Cheers,

- DJA
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On 27 Oct 2009, at 12:57 AM, Bob Morabito wrote:

Hi Matthew--

According to Google--hope this helps:)

Bob
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Penderecki: Symphony 8 - Dies Irae


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_Irae

The words have often been set to music as part of the Requiem service, originally as a sombre plainchant. It also formed part of the traditional Catholic liturgy of All Souls Day. Music for the Requiem Mass has been composed by many composers, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi, and Igor Stravinsky. The setting by Mozart, especially the first two stanzas (Requiem, 2nd movement), is often heard in the scores of movies and the musical "beds" of commercials (e.g. X2: X-Men United).

The traditional Gregorian melody has also been used as a musical quotation in a number of other classical compositions, among them:

   * Thomas Adès - Living Toys
* Charles-Valentin Alkan - Symphony for Solo Piano, Op. 39, Souvenirs: Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique, Op. 15 - (No. 3 - Morte) * David Baker - Fantasy on Themes from Masque of the Red Death Ballet
   * Ernest Bloch - Suite Symphonique [4]
   * Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique
   * Johannes Brahms - Klavierstück, Op. 118, No. 6
   * Benjamin Britten - War Requiem
   * Antoine Brumel - Dies Irae
   * Elliott Carter - In Sleep, In Thunder, #4
   * Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Grand Office des Morts
   * George Crumb - Black Angels, Makrokosmos Volume II, Star Child
   * Luigi Dallapiccola - Canti di prigionia
* Michael Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony 5th mvmt, “Red Cape Tango”. Dead Elvis
   * Raymond Deane - Seachanges
   * Ernő Dohnányi - Rhapsody in E-flat minor, Op. 11, No. 4
   * Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, mvmt 1
   * Martin Ellerby - Paris Sketches, mvmt 3
   * Antonio Estévez - Cantata Criolla (1954)
   * Jean Françaix - Cinq poemes de Charles d'Orléans
* Diamanda Galás - Masque Of The Red Death: Part I - Divine Punishment & Saint Of The Pit: Track 5. Heautontimorounenos (Restless Souls)
   * Robert Gerhard - Piano Concerto
   * Alexander Glazunov - Moyen Age
   * Leopold Godowsky - Piano Sonata in E minor, mvmt 5
   * Berthold Goldschmidt - Beatrice Cenci opera
   * Charles Gounod - Faust opera, Act IV; Mors et Vita
* Sofia Gubaidulina - Am Rande des Abgrunds (On the edge of abyss), for 7 celli & 2 aquaphones
   * Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 103, "The Drumroll"
   * Heinz Holliger - Violin Concerto, 2nd movement
* Vagn Holmboe - Symphony No. 10, 1st & 4th mvmts; Symphony No. 11, 1st mvmt
   * Arthur Honegger - La Danse des Morts
   * Karl Jenkins - Requiem
   * Miloslav Kabeláč - Symphony No. 8 Antiphonies
   * Aram Khachaturian - Symphony No. 2 The Bell Symphony, Spartacus
   * György Ligeti - Le Grand Macabre
   * Franz Liszt - Dante Symphony, Totentanz
* Charles Martin Loeffler - One Who Fell in Battle, Rhapsodies for oboe, viola, and piano, 1st movement, and several songs
   * Jean-Baptiste Lully - Dies Irae
   * Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2, mvmts 1, 3, and 5
   * Bohuslav Martinů - Cello Concerto No. 2, final movement.
   * Nikolai Medtner - Piano Quintet in C Major, Op. posth.
* Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain, Songs and Dances of Death
   * Nikolai Myaskovsky - Piano Sonata No. 2, Symphony No. 6
   * Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
   * Krzysztof Penderecki - Dies Irae
   * Ildebrando Pizzetti - Requiem, Assassinio nella cattedrale
* Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 1, Op. 13, Symphony No. 2, Op. 27, Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28, Isle of the Dead, Op. 29, Prelude in E minor, Op. 32, No. 4, The Bells choral symphony, Op. 35, Études-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 2, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, Symphony No. 3, Op. 44, Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
   * Ottorino Respighi - Brazilian Impressions
   * Marcel Rubin - Symphony No. 4, 2nd mvmt (Dies Irae)
* Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre, Requiem, Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony")
   * Aulis Sallinen - Aulis Dies Irae, Op. 47
   * Ernest Schelling - Impressions from an Artist's Life
   * Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach) - Unbegun Symphony
   * William Schmidt - Tuba mirum
   * Alfred Schnittke - Symphony No. 1, mvmt 4
   * Peter Sculthorpe - Memento Mori (1993)
   * Dmitri Shostakovich - Music for Hamlet, Symphony No. 14
   * Jean Sibelius - Lemminkäinen Suite
* Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji - Variazioni e fuga triplice sopra “Dies iræ” per pianoforte (1923-26), Sequentia cyclica super “Dies iræ” ex Missa pro defunctis in clavicembali usum (1948-49)
   * Ronald Stevenson - Passacaglia on DSCH (1962-3)
* Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome * Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (sacrifice intro); Three pieces for String Quartet (III, "Canticle"); Histoire du Soldat; Wind Octet, (Tema Con Variazioni) * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Grand Sonata, Op. 37; Manfred Symphony; Orchestral Suite No. 3, Op. 55; Modern Greek Song, Op. 16, No. 6; Marche Funèbre, Op. 21, No. 4
   * Frank Ticheli - Vesuvius
   * Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Tudor Portraits
   * Adrian Williams - Dies Irae
   * James Yannatos - Trinity Mass
   * Eugène Ysaÿe - Sonata in A minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Obsession"
* Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz - The Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtracks


On Oct 27, 2009, at 12:09 AM, Matthew Hindson wrote:

Any listers know of a list of 20C works that use the Dies Irae in some form
or another?

There is Rachmaninoff, of course, and Michael Daugherty's "Dead Elvis". Also Crumb uses it now and then e.g. Black Angels, Makrokosmos II. But any
others that come to mind? (Particularly "important" works?)

Matthew
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